Cory Booker: “Every single day in America, 2,700 people die from…”

“Big food companies, big pharmaceutical companies profiting off of our pain, getting richer while American families get sicker and bills pile higher and higher. Every single day in America, 2,700 people die from diet-related diseases. That's nearly a million people dead every year from what we eat. More than die from Alzheimer's. Accidents on our highways, strokes combined. And we in this country have normalized it.” (01:20–01:31)

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